This seems like a ridiculous anecdote that is unverifiable by anyone but the author. We even had names for these when I worked in journalism. They were called "

This seems like a ridiculous anecdote that is unverifiable by anyone but the author. We even had names for these when I worked in journalism. They were called "sure it did's" because everyone was "sure, that's how it happened." Amazingly each week we had a handful of op-ed pieces or even real reporting that would open with an amazingly pertinent, often hard to believe and never verifiable slice-of-life just like this.